C1719

Vue de la Ville de Surate. Batavia. [Sur…

Mapmaker:

Two views of the important trading ports of Surate and Batavia (Jakarta). Situated on the north west coat of India Surat became the emporium of India, exporting gold and cloth. Its major industries were shipbuilding and textile manufacture, especially silk weaving. … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Vue de la Ville de Surate. Batavia. [Surat & Jakarta]

Date:

C1719

Mapmaker:

Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743)

Condition:

In good condition, uncoloured as issued, with wide margins and strong impression.

Technique:

Copper engraving.

Image Size:

210mm

x 370mm

Paper Size:

255mm

x 435mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1719

Description:

Two views of the important trading ports of Surate and Batavia (Jakarta).

Situated on the north west coat of India Surat became the emporium of India, exporting gold and cloth. Its major industries were shipbuilding and textile manufacture, especially silk weaving.

In 1612, England had established its first Indian trading factory in Surat.

From Chatelain’s Atlas Historique.

Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 - 1743)

Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He lived consecutively in Paris, St. Martins, London (c. 1710), the Hague (c. 1721) and Amsterdam (c. 1728). Chatelain was a skilled artist and mapmaker who combined a wealth of historical and geographical information with delicate engraving and an uncomplicated composition. Ground breaking for its time, this work included studies of geography, history, ethnology, heraldry, and cosmography. His maps with his elegant engraving are a superb example from the golden age of French mapmaking. The publishing firm of Chatelain, Chatelain Frères and Chatelain & Fils is recorded in Amsterdam, from around 1700-1770, with Zacharias living "op den Dam" (Dam Square) in 1730. Henri Abraham Chatelain, his father Zacharie Chatelain (d.1723) and his younger brother Zacharie Junior (1690-1754), worked as a partnership publishing the Atlas Historique, Ou Nouvelle Introduction à L'Histoire.

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